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Unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Management | Process that involves a manager working with people and using other resources such as money and equipment to achieve goals. |
| characterisitcs of managers | Decisive, initiative, good with people, hard worker, flexible, charismatic |
| Managing Activities | Planning, organising, controlling |
| Management SKills | leading, motivating, communicating |
| Leadership | It is the ability to direct people, give them instructions and make them follow and obey you. |
| Autocratic Leadership | manager makes all the decisions without consulting employees |
| Democratic Leadership | Manager involves employees when making decisions |
| Laissez Faire Leadership | The manager does not interfere with how employees do their work. |
| Delegation | This is when a manager gives some of their work to an employee to do for them. |
| Motivation | This involves the manager energising employees and providing them with incentives so that they will cooperate and work harder |
| Motivation Theories | Mc Gregor Theory X and Y Maslow - Hierachy of Need |
| Communication | This involves transferring information from one person to another. |
| Types of Communicaiton | Internal and External |
| Internal Communication | Internal communicaiton can be upward, downward or horizontal. it is between two or more parties inside the same business. |
| Examples of Internal Communication | Notice Board, Internal Phone, suggestion box, memo, pager, intercom |
| External Communication | This is between a business and other people outside the business |
| Examples of External Communication | Telephone, E mail, Letter, Video COnferencing, Press Conferencing |
| Written Communicaiton | Letter, Fax, E-mail, Reports The written word |
| Oral Communicaiton | The Spoken word - Face to face conversations, Intercom, telephone, Meeting |
| Visual Communicaiton | Pictures symbols, diagrams and maps. Exampls, Bar charts, Pie Charts, Line Graph |
| Barriers to Effective Communicaiton | Language, Prejudice, Information overload, Poor listening skills, trust, Timing |